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Currently, calibre users have a choice of commercial providers, or running models locally using LM Studio or Ollama.

The choice is yours. If you want local models, you can do that.

I agree with you that the push towards them is annoying. (Google's "Your phone has new exciting features.")

In this case, Calibre does not seem to introduce any said annoyances (probably because it is FOSS, so no pressure for adoption), but people are upset anyways.

There are many features I don't use in various software, but it never made me complain that a new icon/menu entry appeared.

I struggle to understand the pushback against AI features. As long as the feature isn't intrusive, it seems like a minor addition, and may even be useful to some people. LLMs are here to stay, there is no denying that at this point.

Delta.Chat is really underappreciated, open-source and distributed. I recommend you at least look into it.

Signal, on the other hand, is a closed "opensource" ecosystem (you cannot run your own server or client), requires a phone number (still -_-) and the opensource part of it does not have great track record (I remember some periods where the server for example was not updated in the public repo).

But yeah, if you want the more popular option, Signal is the one.

Cannot find it now, but that's how it was discussed at the time when chatmail server became a thing. It is also how it is configured in chatmail:

https://github.com/chatmail/relay/blob/96a1dbac08441034c5990...

https://github.com/chatmail/relay/blob/96a1dbac08441034c5990...

You obviously must trust that the server runs this configuration, but you can always run your own chatmail, or regular postfix. (If you don't need "federation" with other mail servers, you don't even need port 25 open).

However, you can also configure your app to delete messages from the server sooner.

Oh, how I hate the new Samsung remotes!

They have very few buttons, which you can't tell apart in the dark (unless you remember the layout) and everything must be done through the UI which tries to upsell you some streaming service everywhere.